After winning five games in-a-row and five-of-six to begin the month of June, the Lower Mac Connie Mack team lost two straight last weekend on back-to-back days.

The Mustangs fell 4-2 in extra innings last Friday at home against East Stroudsburg and then dropped a 2-0 game on the road at Lehigh-Bethlehem the next day.

In the game with East Stroudsburg, Lower Macungie took an early 1-0 lead with a run in their first at-bats in the bottom of the first inning.

After reaching via a walk, Jackson Burton scored the game’s opening run by stealing home.

Following three scoreless innings, East Stroudsburg got on the scoreboard with a run in the top of the fifth to tie the game and then took its first lead with a run in the top of the sixth inning.

Trailing 2-1 in its final at-bats in the bottom of the seventh inning, Lower Macungie answered and was helped out by a little misfortune for ES. With the bases loaded, East Stroudsburg’s catcher was called for interference, which allowed Miles Johnson to come home with the tying run.

East Stroudsburg, however, put up two runs in the next frame and then shut out Lower Mac in the bottom of the eighth to secure the victory.

Ben Roth, Gavin Galligani and Carter Granitz each finished with a hit, with the latter adding an RBI. Burton and Johnson scored the runs.

Dylan Freed threw five innings and allowed just one hit and an unearned run, striking out six.

The following day, however, against Lehigh-Bethlehem, the Mustangs had a tough go of it as they were not only shutout, but no-hit. Lehigh-Bethlehem used two different pitchers to shut them down and scored a run in the bottom of the second inning and another in the fifth to claim the win.

Lower Macungie is now 6-3 overall and sits in eighth place in the league standings out of 21 teams.